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XXXII Ballades in Blue China
by Lang, Andrew
- Used
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Very Good Minus
- Seller
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Newburyport, Massachusetts, United States
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About This Item
London: Kegan Paul, Trench & Co., 1885 Reprint. Hard cover, 16mo.( 4 x 6 ½ inches) in green cloth gilt, 112 pp., First Edition Thus. (A re-issue of the 1880 edition, with amendments.) Printed at the Chiswick Press. The front board with title blocked in gilt, and pictorial "Arbor Scienti Arbor Vitae" logo to lower right edge. Boards beveled, top edge gilt, with other text block edges untrimmed. The title page in blue ink, featuring an attractive chinoiserie decoration. CONDITION: Very Good.Minus. Showing some edge wear to boards, and both end of spine. There is bubbling to both boards. Some darkening of endpapers, however, remainder of contents are crisp and clean.**This collection of poetry by the prolific Scots writer Andrew Lang (1844-1912) was first published in 1880. Lang was a contemporary and friend of Robert Louis Stevenson. He was educated in Edinburgh and St. Andrews before matriculating at Bailliol College, Oxford. He was later a fellow at Merton College, Oxford. Although he published works on such diverse subjects as Scottish history and anthropology, he is best remembered, however, as the collector of fairytales and folklore, brought out as Andrew Lang's "Fairy Books of Many Colours," the twelve books of which secured his place in the pantheon of juvenile literature. . Hardcover. Very Good Minus.
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- Bookseller
- Dark and Stormy Night Books
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- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 8072
- Title
- XXXII Ballades in Blue China
- Author
- Lang, Andrew
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good Minus
- Publisher
- Kegan Paul, Trench & Co.
- Place of Publication
- London
- Date Published
- 1885
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- Beveled
- Beveled edges, or beveled boards, describe a technique of binding in which the edges of book boards have been cut into slanted...
- Edges
- The collective of the top, fore and bottom edges of the text block of the book, being that part of the edges of the pages of a...
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